Alliance Bernstein - AB Disruptors ETF
$132.22−1.58 (−1.18%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.65%
- Fund size
- $3.4B
- 1Y return
- +31.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.08%
- Holdings
- 119
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $132.83
- 52W range
The ETF.net FWD Grade
Score 59 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 55Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 72Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on FWD
BMost disruption ETFs hand the job to an index. FWD hands it to a stock-picking team with a go-anywhere mandate: any sector, any geography, roughly 120 companies AllianceBernstein believes are positioned to upend their industries.
The fund is actively managed and seeks long-term capital growth by investing across sectors and geographies in innovative companies positioned to disrupt their industries.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed and genuinely global. It can own disruptors in any sector or industry, not just the usual tech-and-biotech slice most thematic funds fish in.alliancebernstein.comalliancebernsteinholdinglp.gcs-web.com
- 0.65% sits right at the median for disruptive-innovation funds, and here that fee buys live stock picking rather than an index license.alliancebernstein.com
- About 120 holdings spreads the bet wider than the most concentrated innovation funds, so no single moonshot runs the show.
- Launched in 2023 and now a billion-dollar-plus fund, it is among the easier names in its theme to get into and out of at tight spreads.
Worth knowing
- No index to grade it against. The mandate is discretionary, so what you own rides on the manager's judgment rather than a published rulebook.alliancebernstein.com
- Cheaper routes to the theme exist. Index-run peers KOMP (0.20%) and XT (0.46%) cover innovation for a fraction of the fee.
- Built for growth, not income: distributions come at most once or twice a year, and disruptive names tend to swing harder than a broad global index.
FWD Holdings
- Stocks
- 119
- 22%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology56.1%
- Industrials18.4%
- Health Care10.4%
- Communication6.5%
- Consumer Discr.5.8%
- Materials1.2%
- Energy1.0%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- United States73.14%
- Taiwan (Province of China)3.78%
- Japan3.31%
- United Kingdom2.71%
- Korea (the Republic of)2.45%
- Netherlands2.43%
- Germany2.12%
- Ireland1.93%
- 8.13%
Developed 70% · Emerging 30%
FWD Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | FWD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +28.1% |
| 1 month | +3.0% |
| 3 months | −10.1% |
| 1 year | +31.3% |
| 3 years | +36.9% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | FWD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +28.1% | |
| 2025 | +32.0% | |
| 2024 | +29.3% | |
| 2023 | +25.6% |
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FWD Dividends
- 0.08%
- $0.11
- $0.11 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Jul 23, 2025 | $0.0057 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 18, 2024 | $1.50 |
FWD Risk
- 25.1%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −29.0%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.61
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
FWD Cost
- The middle half of Disruptive Innovation funds
- Median 0.65%
11 of the 31 Disruptive Innovation funds charge less.